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B2B advertising, with its long sales cycles and relatively thin data density, has never been easy. And the tracking upheaval from cookies disappearing is about to make it harder. That means that some of the pervasive flaws I’ve seen in inheriting B2B lead gen accounts over the years are about to produce even shakier results.  Even without talking about cookies and alternative measurement...
A site migration can feel like packing up your entire house and moving across the country. There’s much to keep track of, and you don’t want to lose any valuable possessions (or, in this case, SEO progress) along the way.  When done right, a site migration is a chance to improve site performance, enhance user experience and boost search presence. However, with countless moving parts and...
If you run a local business and find that your Google Business Profile has been suspended, it can have a devastating effect on your business. Your phone may stop ringing. Customers may stop coming to your location. The loss of revenue is real. Your first instinct may be to panic and just go through the motions of filling out the Appeals tool without thinking too much about the...
While the concept of entities for SEO has been around since 2012, it hasn’t been a widely adopted in PPC. Entities are essentially unique people, places, things or concepts that provide context and relationships for keywords.  As AI becomes more prevalent in digital marketing, incorporating an entity-based approach into your PPC campaigns is a way to get ahead of the competition. This article...
Google is rolling out a new search filter to show only text-based links in the search results. The filter is named “Web”. Clicking it removes images, videos, or other forms of search results; only classic blue links are displayed. Web filter. You can find the web filter next to the other filters in the menu. Sometimes that means it is on the same line as the video filter, news filter and so...
Reddit named Jyoti Vaidee as its first VP of Ads Product, a newly created role overseeing the platform’s monetization engine. Vaidee joins from Google, where she spent over 11 years leading ads products and monetization, most recently as product lead for Google’s Display Ads business. She also served stints working at Microsoft on Xbox and Outlook. The new role underscores Reddit’s focus...
Google is adding new AI-powered search features to Google Search and in Google Search Labs, in addition to rolling out AI Overviews to searchers in the U.S. this week. The new AI-powered features include the ability to adjust AI Overviews, multistep reasoning capabilities, planning capabilities, AI-organized search results and a new Google Lens ask-with-video feature. The new capabilities...
AI Overviews is rolling out to all US based searchers in Google Search, making AI Overviews available to hundreds of millions of searchers by next week, Liz Reid, the company’s new head of Search, announced at Google I/O. AI Overviews will launch in more countries soon and be available to more than a billion users by the end of the year. Hema Budaraju, the Senior Director of Product, Search...
Unpredictable Google core updates can wreak havoc on your website traffic, leaving you struggling to keep up with the ever-changing search landscape. But what if you could future-proof your online presence and skyrocket your search rankings – even during the most volatile algorithm changes? This in-depth white paper reveals the essential technical SEO strategies you need to future-proof...
A new era of customized AI models is emerging. Known as custom GPTs (generative pre-trained transformers), these tools enable SEO professionals to harness the capabilities of language models like ChatGPT and tailor them to their unique processes and philosophies.  This article covers the benefits of custom GPTs and provides a step-by-step guide to building your own “Striking Distance Keyword...